# CVE-2007-0672: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service in BrightStor Mobile Backup by sending a specific value during authentication negotiation, leading to disk consumption and daemon hang.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Feb 2007
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9wv4-24w7-q589

## What is CVE-2007-0672?

CVE-2007-0672 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Feb 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

LGSERVER.EXE in BrightStor Mobile Backup 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and daemon hang) via a value of 0xFFFFFF7F at a certain point in an authentication negotiation packet, which writes a large amount of data to a .USX file in CA_BABLDdata\Server\data\transfer\.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0672?

It affects 5 products.


Products: Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup Laptops Desktops, Broadcom Business Protection Suite, Broadcom Desktop Management Suite, Broadcom Desktop Protection Suite, Ca Business Protection Suite.

## How do I fix CVE-2007-0672?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-0672 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2007-0672 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0672 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2007-5003](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5003/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-5005](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5005/): Path traversal in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-5006](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5006/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-3216](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-3216/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-0449](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0449/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2007-0672 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2007-0672 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Feb 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0672 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0672/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0672/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0672
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0672
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-0672

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0672/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.